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How many copies did Lawgivers II sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 17k–28k
$119k–$320k after Steam's cut $216k–$492k before the cut
from 698 reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

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We left Lawgivers II out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Lawgivers II's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 123k–1.2M
best case 1.8M (WorldBox - God Simulator)
Games like Lawgivers II

The middle of these games

≈ 123k–1.2M copies

≈ $542k–$13.2M after Steam's cut

from ~6k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

All 8 of your similar games are hits.

Best case: WorldBox - God Simulator at ≈ 1.4M–2.3M copies, ≈ $7.7M–$20.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 1k reviews in their first month; the spread ran 460 to 3k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Sandbox (6 of 8) and Simulation (6 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Sandbox + God Game, priced around $20.
The era
The games you compared span 2009 to 2024, and 1 of your 8 shipped in the last two years.
How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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